who were disciples of roger bacon?

Question

Roger Bacon, franciscan friar; not Francis Bacon

Answer 1

Edward Lhwyd was one of his disciples. Maybe this name will help you find others.

Answer 2

(The previous answerer is confusing Francis Bacon with Roger Bacon)

I'm afraid he was too far ahead of his time:

"Upon his own age not great. The seed he let drop, fell for the most part on a barren soil. The master-conception was itself drying up. Science was extinguished in idle raving and inanity ... He sought, in opposition to the spirit of his times, to divert the interest of his contemporaries from scholastic subtleties to the study of nature ... He is ... an interesting and instructive example of real greatness born before its time ... standing alone on heights unknown, and by its very isolation forming no school and leaving no disciples."

"Roger Bacon was the earliest of the natural philosophers of western Europe. In opposition to the physicists of Paris, he urged that “enquiry should begin with the simplest objects of science, and rise gradually to the higher and higher,” every observation being controlled by experiment. In science he was at least a century in advance of his time; and, in spite of the long and bitter persecutions that he endured, he was full of hope for the future. He has been described by Diderot as “one of the most surprising geniuses that nature had ever produced, and one of the most unfortunate of men.” He left no disciple. His unknown grave among the tombs of the Friars Minor was marked by no monument; a tower, traditionally known as “Friar Bacon’s Study,” stood, until 1779, on the old Grand Pont (the present Folly Bridge) of Oxford."

Answer 3

There is an interesting hypothesis about the link between Bacon and Shakespeare that has led to continuing speculation that Bacon either authored or assisted in the writing of some of Shakespeare's works. It has yet to be proven, but there are some pretty compelling arguments.